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Welcome to 1100 Pennsylvania, a newsletter devoted to President Donald Trump’s Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. (and his other companies). President Trump, of course, still owns his businesses and can profit from them.

If you like what you see, tell someone—and support this work by paying for a subscription. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Questions? Read our FAQ/manifesto.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.

Leading Dem on subcommittee overseeing GSA may already have cost Trump Org business

A Democratic Congresswoman who last week pledged to “lead the effort to hold the Trump Administration accountable for” what she considers the Trump Hotel D.C.’s “egregious violation of the Constitution”appeared in that very same hotel last May to accept an award from a delegation lobbying on behalf of a foreign country.

But Rep. Dina Titus’s (D–NV) visit may have cost the president’s hotel business in the long run.

As long as the President continues to personally profit from the Trump Hotel in Washington, he is essentially accepting bribes from giant corporations looking for sweetheart deals and from foreign interests currying favor.

According to a person with knowledge of how the events unfolded, however, Titus did not know the conference’s location when she accepted PSEKA’s invitation. She only learned it was scheduled for the Trump Hotel D.C. after PSEKA published a press release announcing her appearance. Rather than back out though, Titus told the group she’d still participate—but only if PSKEA promised to never again hold an event at any Trump property.

In response to questions about why Titus agreed to attend an event at the president’s property and didn’t just back out after learning of its whereabouts, Titus’s communications director, Kevin Gerson, replied,

Congresswoman Titus, like so many Americans, is concerned about Trump profiting off his presidency in violation of the Constitution. She has never spent a penny at a Trump property, and she will not allow this distraction to prevent her from doing her job to hold this administration accountable for its gross misconduct.

Later this morning, Titus is expected to be elected chair of the Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee—which oversees GSA. On The Rachel Maddow Show last week, Titus described her approach if elected: “We will hold hearings, and we will bring the inspector general in, and the GSA, and whoever it takes from the hotel to see if we can get some answers.”

The only other elected Democratic officials your correspondent can recall seeing at the Republican president’s Pennsylvania Avenue hotel are

Sen. Joe Manchin (D–WV)who’s been spotted theretwice—including just a few days after he was the sole Democrat to vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

Hotel ranks seventh in Trip Advisor’s Travelers' Choice Awards

Previously Washington’s historic Old Post Office, this luxurious downtown hotel features a restaurant, bar/lounge, walkway museum, spa and 263 uniquely designed rooms and suites. “Everyone on staff was incredibly friendly and helpful. The location is perfect for walkers—we went to Capitol Hill, the Mall, White House, Newseum. The shuttle will take you anywhere within 3 miles. The room was beautiful and very relaxing. Would definitely make this my go-to place in the city,” noted a recent TripAdvisor review.

The president’s Pennsylvania Avenue property was the sole D.C.-area hotel to crack the top 10. It also came in fourth in the top U.S. luxury hotel property category.

The Fight4Her campaign protested Trump’s earlier reinstatement of the global gag rule, which prevents nongovernmental organizations that receive U.S. government funding from providing or discussing abortions, with a Robin Bell-led visual protest on the hotel’s Pennsylvania Avenue frontage.

Individual capacity—On Dec. 14, Trump’s personal attorneys appealed the denial of their motion to dismiss the case, also to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. On Dec. 19, the AGs replied to Trump’s motion for a stay pending that appeal by voluntarily dismissing the claims against Trump in his “individual capacity to allow the claims against President Trump in his official capacity to move forward expeditiously.” (The AGs only brought suit against Trump in his individual capacity after the judge suggested they do so.) Trump’s personal attorneys, on Dec. 21, opposed the motion to dismiss at the district level, saying the appeals court now has jurisdiction and accusing the AGs of “gamesmanship.”

One thing that has nothing to do with Trump’s businesses (I think, tough to tell sometimes!)

Thanks for reading. If you like what you saw, tell someone—and support this work by paying for a subscription. If you’ve been forwarded this newsletter, subscribe for yourself at zacheverson.substack.com.Questions? Read our FAQ/manifesto.Tips or feedback? Contact me, Zach Everson, securely via email at 1100Pennsylvania@protonmail.com or on Signal at 202.804.2744.